Sentences with phrase «rather ironic ways»

It's a common enough defense that unravels in rather ironic ways.

Not exact matches

And, in a rather ironic kind of way, it has been the lack of draws which has griped on Bolton manager Owen Coyle.

This unwillingness to let computers override the terrible decisions of terrible drivers is rather ironic, says Brad Templeton, an influential Internet entrepreneur and expert on civil rights in the digital age; accident avoidance is one of the most appropriate ways to have computers intrude into our lives.

An ironic sort of vanity piece in that it tries to be such an anti-vanity piece — bluntly intimate, rather than a peek behind the curtain — but it feels honest all the way.

Fresh off wigging - and - accenting his way through the role of would - be auteur Tommy Wiseau in his The Room tribute film The Disaster Artist, James Franco is gearing up to portray another modern Renaissance man — one whose efforts to wear multiple creative hats resulted in wide - spread acclaim, rather than ironic appreciation: cartoonist, poet, and songwriter Shel Silverstein.

That detail alone says 1952 in a way that feels organic rather than ironic.

In many ways, her work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler of pointing at the ironic and content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.